From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T21:54:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Twisted for Ruby?

On May 9, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> On another thread ("Considering Ruby for a Network Application), Giles
> Bowkett made reference to the "Twisted" application framework  
> available to
> Python programmers, and that got me thinking. How many of you are  
> familiar
> with Twisted or have used it to develop an application? I'd like to  
> know if
> there is any interest among Rubyists in having such a well-elaborated
> event-handling framework for Ruby.
>
> I recently released a single-threaded reactor-based library called
> "EventMachine," which could form the basis for a more complete  
> framework.
> [...]
> Comments? Complaints? Wish-lists? Anyone wanna help?

I think you will find a lot of interest, but IMO it would be best for  
the lib to be wrote in Ruby instead of C++.

This recent interest in event-driven networking is an odd  
coincidence, since I am currently writing a networking app, and I was  
going to roll my own base for it. I looked at using EventMachine, but  
I have decided not to because it requires a C++ compiler.

-- Daniel